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Clear searchIsrael's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
The New Testament Is a Very Jewish Story Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world To many Jewish people, Christianity appears thoroughly foreign. Its historic centres be…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
Does the New Testament Reaffirm Israel's Promises? Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy The Old Testament repeatedly promises Israel preservation, regatherin…
Read article →Eitan Bar · Biblical and historical polemic · 2019
…Bar engages objections that Christians often answer without sufficient knowledge of their Jewish setting. His command of Hebrew, familiarity with Israeli life, and experience discussing Yeshua with Jewish people bring valuable context to questions about messianic prophecy, the Ne…
View recommendation →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
Daniel's Seventieth Week and the New Testament Tribulation Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem The seven-year Tribulation is sometimes dismissed as an interval invented to make a…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…rael and the Church Really the Same? Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose The New Testament teaches a unity so profound that it would have startled the ancient world. In Christ, Jewish and Gentile believers are reconciled to God in one body. Both possess the same Spir…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…d nationally refused its Messiah. Jerusalem was judged, the temple was destroyed, and the Jewish people were scattered among the nations. Does covenant unfaithfulness permit us to conclude that God has permanently abandoned the nation? The answer depends partly upon a distinction…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…he Restoration of the Nation of Israel Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come Israel's history contains both judgement and preservation. The Jewish people were conquered, exiled, dispersed across continents, denied sovereignty, and repeatedly perse…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
Why Did Jesus Choose Twelve Apostles? A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance Jesus did not choose twelve apostles because twelve happened to be a convenient number. He could have appointed seven, seventy, or any other number. Instead…
Read article →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…:18-20). He confronts the contradiction between teaching the law and breaking it. Through Jewish disobedience, the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles (Romans 2:21-24). On the ordinary reading, Paul is addressing a representative Jew who relies upon possession of the law…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…r true meaning in Christ and now belong to the multinational Church. Others maintain that Jewish and Gentile believers are one in Christ while national Israel still has an appointed future under the covenants. This is not a contest over which group matters more. Jewish people hav…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…all God's promises have transferred to the Church. Israel's land becomes a figure of the new creation, David's throne becomes Christ's present heavenly rule, and Israel's promised national restoration becomes the salvation of the multinational Church. The promises are not said t…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…eologian. It developed as the Church became increasingly Gentile, separated socially from Jewish communities, interpreted the destruction of Jerusalem as lasting displacement, and read Israel's Scriptures principally through their fulfilment in Christ and the Church. The resultin…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…God has two unrelated peoples and destinies, Christians enjoy seven years of safety, and Jewish people are abandoned to an unparalleled holocaust. He then appeals to John 5, Daniel, Matthew 24, Romans 8 and the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 to reject the system. Some of his…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…whom Christ gathers after the Tribulation? Many readers assume the answer is obvious. The New Testament applies the language of election to Christians, so the elect in Matthew 24 must be the Church. If they are gathered after the Tribulation, the passage appears to place the rapt…
Read article →Ezekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over
…m in which active language can describe permission. He applies the explanation to several New Testament passages, including those concerning hardening in Romans 9 and 11. This is an interpretive principle, not an automatic replacement of every active verb with “allow.” The surrou…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…Identity of Jesus Christ If YHWH alone is Creator, Saviour and Lord of all, what are the New Testament writers saying when they place Jesus within that identity? Isaiah does not leave Israel searching for a greater God behind the God who speaks. The One who comforts Jerusalem is…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…s: there is one tree, believing Jews and Gentiles are branches within it, and unbelieving Jewish branches have been removed. Surely the tree is now the Church, the Church is Israel, and the distinction has disappeared. That argument gives the metaphor real weight, but it moves to…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…wn. The God Philosophy Would Never Have Invented The incarnation did not merely provide a new answer within the established philosophical system. It overturned the system’s governing assumptions. The Platonist looked beyond the visible world towards a higher and more substantial…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…present body, believing Jews and Gentiles are reconciled to God and to one another in one new man (Ephesians 2:11–18). They possess equal standing in Christ. That unity does not require every covenantal promise to change its named recipient. Acts 15 gives a helpful order. God is…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…almost every direction. In Britain, Easter regularly brings television documentaries and newspaper features promising to uncover the “real Jesus” behind the faith of the Church. The familiar suggestion is that Jesus was originally a Jewish teacher, prophet or failed Messiah and…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…ry woman it describes. Yet neither is virgin an arbitrary Christian invention. In the Old Testament settings where the woman's circumstances are known, the term naturally carries the expectation of an unmarried young woman. Rebekah is called an almah in Genesis 24:43 after the na…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…the discourse is operating within Israel's prophetic programme rather than explaining the newly formed body of Christ in Pauline terms. Daniel's abomination is especially important. Jesus says that when it appears, "then shall be great tribulation" (Matthew 24:15, 21). Daniel 9 p…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…ological puzzle through which the named son may be replaced. It expressly says Isaac. The New Testament explains the phrase: "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That i…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…pon covenant obedience. Gentiles are incorporated into the people of God without becoming Jewish proselytes. The Mosaic covenant and its Levitical order have become obsolete. No nation, including modern Israel, is excused when it acts unjustly. Above all, salvation has always res…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…braham, the faithful Israelite, David's greater Son, the true temple, and mediator of the new covenant. The Church is united to Him. Jewish and Gentile believers therefore become one people, inherit the promises, and anticipate not merely one land but the renewed creation. On thi…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…translated “Messiah” can describe more than one kind of anointed person, and responsible Jewish interpreters have proposed alternatives to Jesus. Those qualifications matter. They prevent an apologetic argument from claiming evidence it does not possess. But they do not remove t…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…ted in its strongest recognisable form. The Qur'an does not say that Allah gave Jesus the New Testament. It speaks of the Injeel in the singular as a revelation bestowed upon Jesus, just as the Torah was given to Moses and the Qur'an to Muhammad. The four canonical Gospels, by co…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…g part of the evidence. But a theory is not superior merely because it explains less. The New Testament does not begin with an abstract philosophical puzzle and reason its way towards three Persons. It records the Father sending the Son, the Son speaking to the Father, the Father…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…stinction: "And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do" (Deuteronomy 34:10–11). The relevant biblical categories are intimate knowledge of God, divine words, might…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…rd placed under faithful care. The judgement is not therefore an abstract denunciation of Jewish ethnicity. Nor is it a declaration that God's promises had always belonged spiritually to a different people. It is a polemic against identifiable rulers at a decisive moment in Israe…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…The promises reach their final meaning in Christ and the Church; any future conversion of Jewish people is their entrance into the Church, not the restoration of Israel as a nation with a distinctive covenant role. That definition identifies the central claim without pretending t…
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